14 FEBRUARY 1987, page 41

Add One Spoonful Of Compassion

Charles Moore CHOOSE FREEDOM: THE FUTURE FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM by Roy Hattersley Michael Joseph, £12.95 T he first half of Mr Hattersley's book attacks the 'New Right'. Above......

Reducing Life To Jokes

Anita Brookner THE SELKIRK STRIP by Ferdinand Mount Hamish Hamilton, £9.95 T he Selkirk Strip is a piece of unman- ageable territory 'between the jungle and the mountains'.......